A Series of Unwasted Food

Pop-Up Dinners

In partnership with top chefs in town, San Diego Food System Alliance held a series of Unwasted Food pop-up dinners in 2016. In an effort to build awareness on food waste, local chefs and partner restaurants prepared gourmet dishes from ignored or un-coveted food that would otherwise go to waste.

In 2016, San Diego Food System Alliance organized Re:Source, a series of Unwasted Food pop-up dinners, where celebrity chefs will use creativity to transform ignored or un-coveted food that would otherwise become ‘waste.’ This pop-up series is inspired by successful initiatives in other cities.

A portion of the proceeds benefitted the San Diego Food System Alliance in its mission to build a healthy, equitable, and sustainable food system in San Diego County.

Re:Source aims to…

Raise awareness of the staggering volume of food that is wasted

Inspire new applications for the overlooked byproducts of our food system

Redefine food waste as an important resource

What

A Series of Pop-Up Dinners

Location

First Dinner: Red Door741 W WashingtonSan Diego, CA

WHY

To raise awareness about food waste, inspire the use of unwanted produce, and redefine food waste.

Pop-Up Dinner Lineup

April 6th The Red Door

May 10th The Land & Water Co

July 26th Eve Encinitas

Request for Ingredients + Hosts

Re:Source wants you to help identify recipes and ingredients that will be used at these public events. What items are passed over in your process that you know are edible and with a bit of ingenuity could be converted into a delicious meal? What obscure recipes from other places use parts of plants that here are considered ‘waste’? What unwanted by-product can you donate?

There are two ways to contribute:Sourcers: Do you have ingredients that are in abundance and eligible for recovery?Chefs/ restauranters: Let us know if you would like to host an event for the pop-up series!We see this as a community effort with long term goals of strengthening our local economy, diverting organics from landfills, ending hunger in SDC, and retiring the word ‘waste’ from the food vocabulary.